Providing public toilet facilities is a discretionary spend for local authorities, but surely it is preferable to the alternative of people disappearing behind bushes to relieve themselves.
Currently the thin end of the wedge is that superloos, such as at Whiting Bay, based on the trademarked French design called a Sanisette, are being removed. How long before their much older brick-built counterparts face a similar fate?
Superloos, which in most cities are a paid-for service, albeit much more than the traditional penny, can help raise income, are self-contained, self-cleaning and offer superb privacy. Compared to the older, often foul smelling and poorly maintained, alternatives, super-loos have proved popular with both users and the authorities, but not in North Ayrshire.